UVA ON TAP: ‘HATS…KEEP BATS WARM’RICHMOND, Va. – VCU may be facing 14th-ranked Virginia at an opportune time. The Rams are hitting the baseball at an impressive rate, a trend they hope continues deep into Tuesday evening. Senior shortstop Vimael Machin has led the way. Machin, who was named Atlantic 10 Conference Player of the Week on Monday, is in […]

EVER-READY LEES SLOTTED FOR COMEBACK SEASONRICHMOND, Va. ? It doesn?t take long for Matt Lees to go from bullpen observer to shutdown reliever. The senior lefty says it requires a little more than a dozen warm-up tosses before he?s game-ready. The routine, which he?s compressed over the years, has served him well. No one has made more appearances out of […]

9 REASONS TO GO TO VCU BASEBALLMy first organized baseball experience was an unmitigated disaster. I was 11, and an aspiring third baseman for Luciano?s of the Austintown Little League ? we didn?t have fancy team names; we just slapped the font of whatever funeral home or local eatery ponied up 100 bucks to buy the uniforms on the jersey. My […]

PUT A BOW ON ITSorry for the dearth of correspondence since Portland. I promised I?d return to comment on the season that was, but had some family stuff to address. I?m back now, and in my stead, I see that Mike Litos, as he often does, has succinctly summed up many of my own feelings on the 2014-15 season and […]

PORTLAND NOTES: RUSSELL OFFICIALLY CRAFTY, BROOKS BREAKS OUT FOR VCUPORTLAND, Ore. ? Much of the talk surrounding VCU?s NCAA Tournament Round of 64 match-up with Ohio State has centered on Buckeyes? star guard D?Angelo Russell, and for good reason. Russell, a 6-foot-5 freshman, was recently named All-America by the United States Basketball Writers Association. The Louisville, Kentucky native ranks first nationally among freshmen in […]

FIXED IN A SNAP; RAMS FULFILL PROMISE TO FALLEN STARBROOKLYN, N.Y. ? Amid the chaotic celebration, Briante Weber hobbled over to the ladder. With the help of his teammates, he ascended toward the rim for the first time in weeks, and snipped the last remaining loop of the net. With the snap of the scissors, he freed the net from the metal rim and […]

RAMS TURN ON A DIME, TOPPLE TOP-SEEDED DAVIDSONBROOKLYN, N.Y. ? Momentum is a funny, nebulous concept, but if there was ever proof of how quickly it can shift, it was VCU?s impressive ? and for many, unexpected – 93-73 upset of regular season champ Davidson Saturday in the Atlantic 10 Tournament semifinals at Barclays Center. Left for dead a little over a […]